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Books on: judge taney

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Journal Articles on: judge taney

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Magazine Articles on: judge taney

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Newspaper Articles on: judge taney

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    Politics Behind High Court's Nominations
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), July 21, 2009
    Subjects: 
    Judges--Political activity, Judges--Political aspects, Judicial candidates--Political aspects
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...1990s, it was Clarence Thomas. Now it is Judge Sonia Sotomayor. Since the 16-year...constructionists and block permissive judges. Liberals, at the same time, have determined...the court could grow to a maximum of 15 judges. The contretemps eventually was resolved...such influential personalities as Roger Taney, Charles Evans Hughes, Louis Brandeis...
     
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    FREDERICK: Visitors' Interest in Nation's History Is Far from Flagging on a Tour
    Newspaper article by Rick Britton; The Washington Times, November 19, 1998
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...than six decades , his law partner, Taney, had an even greater impact on American...justice of the United States in 1857, Taney wrote the majority opinion in the...restrict slavery in the territories. "Judge Taney was a fascinating character," says...
     
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    'Baltimore Massacre' May Have Doomed South; Union Troops Were Ready to Destroy the City
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 14, 2007
    Subjects: 
    Assassination, Soldiers
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...senators, newspapers editors, judges and many others. All were...Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, who, in the fiery words...than any English monarch," Taney wrote. Nevertheless, Lincoln...From the presidents actions, Taney and Randall, the judge and the poet, agreed that...
     
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    Presidential Self-Restraint
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 18, 2002
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...executive branch. Indeed, President Abraham Lincoln defied with impunity an order of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney sitting as a circuit judge in Ex parte Merryman (1861) that held unconstitutional his suspension of the writ of habeas corpus during...
     
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    High Court Focuses on Lincoln's Powers in War
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 21, 2006
    Subjects: 
    Soldiers--Powers and duties
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...be brought before a court or judge to determine whether the person...Luckily for him, the "circuit" judge who received the petition was none other than Roger B. Taney, chief justice of the United...at that time sat as circuit judges when the Supreme Court was...Taneys home was in Baltimore. Taney was no mere disinterested jurist...
     

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Encyclopedia Articles on: judge taney

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    Merryman, Ex Parte
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...case decided in 1861 by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney sitting as a federal circuit judge in Baltimore, Md. John Merryman, a citizen of...Lincoln had authorized him to suspend the writ. Taney held that Article 1, Section 9, of the U.S...
     
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    Habeas Corpus
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...should have the body, writ directed by a judge to some person who is detaining another...available before applying to a federal judge for habeas corpus. The term is mentioned...despite protests by Chief Justice Roger Taney that such suspension was not within the...
     
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    Jackson, Andrew
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...in 1798 he resigned. From 1798 to 1804 he served notably as judge of the Tennessee superior court. War Hero In the War of 1812...transfer as did his successor W. J. Duane , but Roger B. Taney agreed with Jacksons views and made the transfer (see also...
     
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    White, Edward Douglass
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...the Confederate army he practiced law. White became (1879) judge of the Louisiana supreme court and served (1891 94) in the...Justice by President Taft, White the first Southerner since Roger Taney to head the Supreme Court was generally a conservative on the...
     

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